The problem of media/politics is multifold. Many things are out of whack.

If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it. It really is public brainwashing and misinformation.

Many of us had this idea of doing independent film, of making personal, relevant films, as opposed to Hollywood fluff. I directed a few.

The problem for independent filmmakers is that huge companies control all the promotion, all the advertising. Hollywood films' advertising budgets are as large as their shooting budgets.

A politician without money for advertising is out of luck. They are not taken seriously.

It doesn't matter how good your film is; if people don't know about it, they won't go and see it.

I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.

To live with hope is a happy state of being.

No situation can enslaved us, if we are free in our mind.

Everything a captain does in a team room is done to keep the team loose.

I feel like each possession is a battle and you never want to lose a battle.

Censorship that comes from the outside assumes about people an inability to make reasoned choices.

I have the happiness of a passing moment, and what more can mortal ask?

Me releasing my music, if anything, is an opportunity to show the world my stories and tell the world my stories.

It's like a kind of Barbie American dream. I have that childlike quality so a lot of little girls especially [like me]. I've always been a kid at heart. I think I always will be.

This is America, not a banana republic.